Weekend Portfolio: Aurélie Sorriaux
Images and text by Aurélie Sorriaux
Born in 1994 in France, I am a visual artist based in Amsterdam. After a Bachelor of Photography in France, I studied Fine Arts before graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography.
The photographs are visual explorations through memory experience and the complex state of existence. I examine the question of ourselves and research how to link the lands to our ancestors.
Nowadays, we are facing a universal question of our origin, searching for an answer about our roots. It raises the question of identity: what I am? I am my nationality or my DNA? I am what my ancestors were and thus, who were they? Looking at my personal approach takes the viewer back to his own history. The question of identity has become a general interest and each exchange with the audience make me more aware of it.
In my work “Yes, I am a palimpsest too” I create a bridge between geology and genealogy. By using the geology as a metaphor of the past of each individual I investigate the history of our personal lives. In my recent work “In Search of my Curls” I look at what remains within the family and how to identify to it.
I exhibited “In Search of my Curls” at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam in 2020. I am a laureate of the GUP New Talents 2021 and FreshEyes 2021.
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